On Wednesday, 9th January 2013, Luis Alvarado Martinez and Lucille Rieux, President and Secretary General of AEGEE-Europe met Philippe l’Eglise-Costa, the advisor on European Affairs of the President of France, Francois Hollande. The Comite Directeur had asked for this...
On 8th-9th of November 2012 Kathrin Renner and Anna Gots took part in the kick-off meeting of the EduCoach project – last initiative of Study Portals, supported by the European Commission under the Erasmus Mundus Action 3, in Eindhoven. EduCoach project will help...
Two weeks before the Agora I attended a Round Table organised by the European Youth Forum in the European Parliament, focused on the repercussion of youth unemployment for social inclusion. The high unemployment rates among the youth is not fresh news anymore; we have heard...
A year in Comité Directeur, taking a break from real life for a while, this is exactly how it is. There is one simple sentence to explain all bunch of feelings we have been through; we were here. We lived, we loved, we felt, we cried, we laughed, we worked, oh we did...
In most of the booklets, documents and presentations we are proudly saying that AEGEE has a participatory status at the Council of Europe. Have you ever wondered what it actually means? The Council of Europe is an institution that has for sure marked AEGEE the most on our...
Do you want to know if there will be the space and opportunity for young people and youth organizations to develop in the EU? On the 27th March, the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) organised a public hearing to discuss about the future Education and Youth programme...
(Last week I represented AEGEE-Europe in a social hearing on Social Innovation. Here is some food for thought as the outcome of couple of hours spent there.) Governments, academics, private sectors, they are all trying to survive and solve this infamous ‘times of crisis’....
There are seven billions inhabitants in the world, seven billions definitions of a woman. Motherhood, caregiver, fragile, sexy, femininity, guilty, purity and many others... Sadly, majority of these seven billions forget a very basic reality; above all, she is a human. She...
„It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity“ - Mahatma Gandhi. In AEGEE we have for ever had a discussion whether we should put our energy and will into quantity, for example to have a big Network, lots of projects and lots of members all...
In the current day and age, many things in the world have become very accessible for people compared to previous centuries. Communication has become more broad in all aspects, with the spreading of the internet and telecommunication, capitalism and democracy have spread in the...
